Matte Finish for Smooth Shuffling The textured matte back offers a premium feel and reduced glare, making your cards easy to handle and shuffle during competitive play
4 Koga's Ditto A Ditto illustrated by well-known Pokemon artist Ken Sugimori and belonging to Fuschia City Gym Leader Koga despite not being a Poison-type, Koga's Ditto from the Gym Challenge expansion takes up the majority of the card frame, leaving little room for the holographic pattern that surrounds it
This time around, it was a first-edition Japanese holographic crystal Charizard from 2002s Mysterious Mountains expansion that went under the hammer
Youll also benefit greatly from cards like Treasure Nabber, which will net you treasures for giving back the artifacts you borrow
The narrative element became stronger, as did the mechanical cohesion, as we see in narrative blocks like Ravnica and Innistrad
Its been impactful in many formats, to the point that playing 20 more cards in your deck just to get the companion mechanic going seems like a good idea (sorry Commander players, you cant have a 120 card-deck)